Alcoholic drinks perfect solvents for polymerisation

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The demanding aqueous environments of beer, wine and spirits are excellent for living radical polymerisation

International researchers have gone through the contents of their liquor cabinets to see if alcoholic drinks make good solvents for single-electron transfer living radical polymerisation (SET-LRP). And the answer is an unequivocal yes.